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There has been a cacophony of responses to the Obama Administration purported generous offer for Israel to extend the building freeze everywhere, possibly except Jerusalem, for an additional ninety days. This would also call for an immediate stop to all building restarted after the September 26 end to the ten-month freeze. Thus far, for reasons that should be obvious, the Israeli’s are wary of Obama bearing gifts. The first demand to come from the members of the Israeli Cabinet is for the proposed promises to be formalized in writing. Apparently, they remember the last time they depended on the word...

Ever since Israel’s miraculous victories in the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973), the world has pressured Israel to return the land gained in defense against her neighbors’ belligerence. Egypt was the first country to break with the “Three No’s” (no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel) position defined by the Muslim world during the Khartoum Conference. This led to the return of the entire Sinai Peninsula, an area of land significantly larger than all of Israel, to Egypt in exchange for what has become a chilly peace. A member of...

What if, in response to intense diplomatic pressure from the world community, the United States government one day issued the following statement? “We have determined that it is in the national best interest of the United States to disengage from the state of Indiana.” WHAT?